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the available items that support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's
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time for today's episode of Nick Carter. The original aired eight September the twenty
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first of nineteen forty seven, So we have one more lost episode and it's
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the case of the Two Faced Firemaster. You know what, NP, take
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an A and a c ad TIV then at E and N with a D.
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Now, ladies, keep on listening to get the NC you've been listening.
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You Post War All Dutch Cleanser, famous for Chasing Dirt, presents Nick
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Carter, Famous Chasing Crime. Every week at this time, two great names
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are joined as new Postwar Old Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful
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and daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter Master Detective Patsy. I
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want you to send wald I want Scubby to boon Town. Have them kick
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up a fuss. That'll make the headline. We'll sure, Nick, But
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what kind of a fuss? Give Waldo five hundred dollars? And I wanted
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to hold up a bank and put the money in the bank safe. Hold
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up a bank and put the money in the bank safe. Yes, that'll
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make the headlines, all right, But how will it help you? It'll
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help me a great deal. It'll probably save my life. Now. The
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Case of the two paced fire Master, an a's adventure starring Lonclock as Nick
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Carter, brought you by New post war old Dutch Cleander. Two boys and
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their teams walk up to a small hardware store on the west side. It's
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after him, and the store is dark, but one of them pushes the
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door open and her and walked cautiously to the rear, where a small naked
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light bulb burns dimling. I'm here, mister Gerard. Oh hello Jenny,
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and where's Fred hotside? You got the guns right here? Sweetest pair of
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forty five A Minix you ever saw. There isn't an identification number on him.
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A hundred bucks each, right, yep, that's the deal, sure
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a mister Gerard, I ain't got two hundred bucks on me right now?
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Eh. Me and Fred we figure we'll have the dough for you in about
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an hour if you let us have the rods. We got a little deal.
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I see, well, okay, Johnny, here you are. Thanks.
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You'll be back here by midnight with the door, short thing. I
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see a light I missed, Gerard, this is a stick up. Don't
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nobody move. This is a stick up. You hear me. This is
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a stick up, you young fight you can't. I told no one to
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move. Get over against a wall. You'll get the same as he got.
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Hurry up, fight, Check up the back of the store before you
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hit the register. Maybe there's someone back there who turned on alarm, who
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just put the love of guy. There wan't somebody back there, and you
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got your pals. Not that you don't give me some way to stay back
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against the warn you stay inside. Only you don't get away, my boy.
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You'll never get me to night. Mister No, when I got a
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car and a run over there, look out what that car? Who are
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you crowding? However? I said, that's a car. When I got
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that car back like fun, I will, okay, then I'll look you
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do it, Nick, You get mixed up in everything. We are born
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that way as at the result of practice. I don't know. Brady Patsy
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and I were driving down Central Avenue last night morning, her own business,
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and we just finished the candle case argan. And that was the moment when
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Johnny Macklin came tearing out of the place and jumped into his car and come
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from the story, y'll stopping, And I was the closest, so I
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cut him off. Nick, Why should you be interested? One kid's dead,
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We've got the other one cold for attempted robbery. There isn't any case.
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It so happens, ready that there is a case. I am the
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guns, the boys us more about them. Every identification mark and serial number
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has been removed and in a professional manner. So what somebody's in the business
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are preparing and selling firearms to crooks and potential crooked bad That's somebody's got to
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be put out of business. You're right about that. So with your permission,
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I'm cutting myself into this deal. Okay, Nick, where are you
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gonna start going down to the hospit for a talk with Johnny Mecklin. Johnny,
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I want to know where you got that gun. Ah, go fly
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a kite. Now listen, Jenny, the man who sold you that gun
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is as much responsible for the jam you're in as you are, and I
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want to know his name. Go scrab You know I can trace the gun
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like one your can a rein no number on. I said, I can
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trace the gun, and I can, and I can get the man who
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processed it and sold it to you, And you can save me a lot
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of time if you'll answer my questions, it'll make things easier for you.
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John You can't trace that rod, and you know it. You're pluff you
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think so, I'd say the lab kit Betsy. You see, Johnny,
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the serial numbers I stamped into the middle of a gun, and I stamped
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with a lot of pressure. But even if someone very carefully removes those numbers
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with a file and acid, they can't change one thing. What arreched the
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fact that the stamp has hit the metal so hard it's permanently changed the crystaline
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structure of the metal. What do you mean I mean I can drop some
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of this chemical reagents on the gun where the serial number was originally like this.
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I'm watching and you'll see the original serial number of a gun, your
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gun showing up fuzzy but distinct enough to read. You mean, see why
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two eight four thirty seven. For the love of them, so we light
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to me the dirty, lousy crooky light to me. Goheazy Johnny pop Jarrod
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over on tenth Avy, the Garrod Hardware stoore go get them, mister Carter.
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Yeah, Brady, Brady Nick. I've located the man who sold Johnny
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Macklin his gun, the man named Gerard who runs a hardware store on tenth
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Avenue. But I've got to haunch Girard's only the salesman. I want the
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manufacturer going over there and place and order for guns big enough to stir things
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up. And when I order them in my best gangster voice, it's gonna
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start things popping. I hope, Yo, Gerard, thanks me, mister,
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I got two hundred bucks for you right here. Bred and Johnny sent
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their regards with the dough rading Johnny to get it. They pulled a nice
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job last night, and they figured it'd be safer maybe the lamb out of
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town, So they sent me with the dough. What's your name, mister
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Kane Nels Kane from Saint Louis. You don't know me, Well, I'm
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much obliged, mister Kane. Listen, Gerard. I like the way you
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did business with the kids, so I figured maybe you and me can make
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a deal. How much for forty belly gun thirty eight? Mabea Thompson gun
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too, mister Kane, it's one big order. Well, I run one
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big organization in Saint Louis. Well, I'll see what I can do,
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mister Kane. Unfortunately I can't let you know right away. Course you could
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come back this afternoon at three. I am sure we can do business together.
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Fine, mister Kane, really fine, I say, I think we're
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in you. No, my hunt was right. He's just a salesman.
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So I gave him a big order my best gangster dialect, and he said
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he had to find out whether mister manufacturer had enough stock to supply me.
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And I'll get to the manufacturer through Gerard this afternoon. Uh huh, oh,
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golly, I forgot Brady called ten minutes ago. He said, you
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asked him to keep the story quiet. I did, well. One of
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the police reporters got hold of the boy's name for the and they'll be in
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the paper tonight. I'll make it's the manufacturer sees that your case is shot.
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That's no lie. What do you do now? Oh? I don't
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know. I only know I've got to find out who's supplying the underworld with
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guns. Now for my next question, how old is your firm? Mister
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Valance. Rodney Valence Incorporated is seventy five years old and the third Rodney Valance
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to head this old and respected firm as Firemaster Firemaster. What's that? The
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Firemaster invention creates the new types of fireworks at the manufactured each year. It's
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very interesting in decent. Yes, Linden, you my dear, if you
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would excuse me a moment, mister t that's all right, mister Vallance.
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I'll wait here. I think we got a new customer, mister Allens,
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and come to us to Johnny Macklin, who was sent to us by one
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of my best customers. Who is he man named Keane Nels Kane from Saint
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Louis wants forty guns in the Thompson forty Quite an order. Eh, there's
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just one thing, mister Bannon, I don't know this nels Kane, never
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seen him before, never even heard of him, and we must be careful
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as always. You check the fires, Lindam. Yes, mister Ballance,
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a knowing by the name of nels Caane. Listen here, mister Ballance.
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Nevertheless, such an order is rather too large to throw away on mere suspicion.
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That's the way I feel. Mister Allen's I'll tell you rid me and
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arranged to tes the gentleman's integrity this afternoon. It would be al test but
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very affective. Well, now that Johnny and Fred's names will be in the
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newspapers, and Balance is already suspicious of his new customer, it looks as
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though Nick Carner may be up against a tough problem. You'll see how he
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meets this challenge in just a moment. I'll back to the case of the
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two based fire after today's adventure with Nick Carter brought you by a new post
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war all that splendor. While the past hour, Nick has been engaged in
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his favorite pastime while thinking he's going dark for the target set up in his
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office. Finally, however, Patty just can't stand not being talked to any
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longer. Nick, haven't you thought of anything yet? That's I'll just have
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to go ahead and take a chance. Maybe Girard and miss the manufacturer won't
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see the hold up story in the paper into a two ways maybe the maintime
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I have a plan and the help, Oh, tell lorder to pick up
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Scubby and fly out to Boonetown at once. Okay, what that a carry
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throming identification with him identifying them as Johnny Macklin and friends, and then out
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in Boonetown that it creates some wild fuss that'll get them picked up by the
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local police, something that'll make a big splash in the newspapers. And it's
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got to be so big that the local papers here will be sure to pick
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it up. Well, what should they do? I want you to give
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Waldo five hundred dollars and tell him he's to hold up a bank and put
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the money in the bank safe. Hold up a bank and put the money
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in the bank safe. Yes, oh, that'll make the headlines all right.
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Naturally, I want you to make arrangements to have the bank co operate.
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Well, I said, hope them on the quiet court. The meantime,
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I've got a three o'clock day for Gerard. I hope he doesn't have
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a newspaper with him. All right, Peterson, we've arrived. What time
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is it, Linda? Very good? You understand your instructions, Peterson,
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I think so. Mister Valance, your has told this Kine person to meet
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me alongside the CALLI power station at half past three. But you will meet
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him, and of course, pre candid, you are the key man in
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this deal. Yes, sir, you will also carry this bag. Okay,
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there's a Thompson gun in it which you will offer it a sample I
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see. And if this cane proves to be a cop or something, trust
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me, Peterson, trust me, okay, mister Valance, and I'll be
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offered you. You mustn't keep us kne meeting. I don't waiting long,
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mister Kane. Huh, yeah, you're right. I know. I know
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I'm a little late. Sorry, you had a big boy. That's right,
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brother, Go ahead, you carry the ball. What do you mean
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I'm a stranger in town, mister. I'm not taking no chances. You
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want to do business with me, go ahead and talk, okay, okay,
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touchy Anti. I got a sample here to show you. Ow Uh,
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This here is Thompson special. It's a rebuilt you have no identification.
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What do you think I am anyway a baby? You're trying to set up
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a pinch for me. I want to beat your head in. You know
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no better than the plash of Thompson gun up and the opening where a hundred
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people can see us. Get on your feet, bunk, take that bag
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and get out of here. But I taught you I don't do business with
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you. You had a big boy on this deal, and I'm the King
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of Siam. Hey, I want a couple of hoky. What's the audio
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set up? Mush had to beat make the power station. I'm right in,
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mister Kane. Oh you know the name is Balance, Rodney Balance.
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This is Linda. How do you do, mister Kaye? Me to shake
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your hand, Sir, you positively trash poor Peterson. He had it coming,
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mister Kaye. He was clumsy. I'm beginning to get it. Yeah.
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That big guy, that's great Sho sent that mug to turn me out.
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Eh. We have to be careful, mister Keane. Yeah. Sure.
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Now to get down to business. You spoke of forty revolvers Andy Thompson
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gunn. That's right. The price will be five thousand dollars on delivery.
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All power arms are guaranteed to be in the best working condition and wanted free
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of all identification marks. Okay, the price is all right? Where the
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stuff and my plant? Naturally, you couldn't expect me to carry all that
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around with me? All right? How do I get to the plant?
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We will take you there this evening, mister Kane. Suppose we pick you
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up in front of Grards Shop at say seven o'clock. I think I've been
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waiting for you, and he's At this time. I'm finally located our manufacturer.
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Who is he? A man named Rodney Valance. I dropped up to
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check him on the way home. He runs Rodney Valance Incorporated, a firm
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that manufactures fireworks, firecrackers, skyrockets and stuff like that. That's right,
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Rodney is what they call the firemaster, the man who designs the fireworks.
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But it so happens he also designs firearms for criminal use. So, Nick,
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if you met him, why didn't you grab them? Didn't want to
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outuntil I've located his plant. He's going to take me there tonight at seven.
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Good get hold of Sergeant Brady for me, will you. I want
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to make a few plans right, and let's hope that Rodney Valance doesn't read
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the wrong newspaper between now and then he does, you may have to start
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looking for a new boss. Linda, Linda at six forty five. Time
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to be on our way. We's a busy night before it is, Linda,
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there's mister Caine to be taken care of, and Linda, it's the
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matter mister Vallance. Gerard said Caine was a friend of Johnny Macklin's, didn't
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he quite great? Johnny gave him the money to pay for his guns before
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he left town. Johnny didn't leave town. Johnny didn't pull off that job.
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Last night. Fred was killed and Johnny was caught. Let me see
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that paper there. Johnny was caught by Nick Carter. Nick Carter where thank
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you, Linda, You're a treasure, although I don't think mister Nail's cane.
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Carter will think so after we've finished with him tonight and swiftly Rodney Vallens
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and then they'll leave for their appointment with Nick, who waits in front of
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Gerard's store. We'll see what happens next in just a moment. And now
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for the conclusion of the case of the two faced Firemaster Today's Adventure with Nick
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Carter Robbed You by new post war old Dutch gleansor. It's ten minutes after
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seven. A long black Saedam has just pulled up before Girard Shop on Tenth
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Avenue and Nick Carter, the collar of his overcoat up close around his neck,
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has jumped in swiftly. The Saddam starts his drive through the city.
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Sorry to have kept you waiting, mister Kane, I hope you forgive me.
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Yeah, sure, that's okay. You know just why I come here.
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I've read in the paper about Johnny Macklin and Fritt No did you.
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Yeah, crazy kids sure get themselves into the goofiest gems. You read what
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they did at in Boonetown today, boon Yes, right, see you on
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the paper. Read it to me, law turn on a light ban sue
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see hes identified as Johnny Macklin and Fred Gummer attempted to rob the Boonetown bank
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this afternoon, but for some unknown reason, made a mistake of depositing five
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hundred dollars instead of taking any money. Mister Vallance, Yes, I heard.
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Very interesting, isn't it. We'll go into it after we get to
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the planet. Hey, what's the matter of Valance? Nothing at all,
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mister Kane. Just a little problem of conflicting newspaper stories. We'll have to
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settle. It. Shouldn't bother you, now, mister Kane. Okay,
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don't bother me. There's one thing at death. You've been driving his car
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on the streets like you an eel. I don't like it. We're going
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to your planners. It's a come on, mere, your precaution to shake
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off anyone who might be tailing it is, mister Keane, that you already
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tested me once. That enough. I am a careful man, mister Keane,
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so am I, especially with five grand on me. Now, look,
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we're at fifth and a grand direct. We was being tailed. We
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ait no more. So now either we're head straight for your place or I
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get out. Well, I still got my dough. We're going there directly,
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mister Kane. All right, So where is it? It can't do
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any harm to tell you now, mister Kane. It's alongside the river at
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First Street. It's the Valance Powder House where most people imagine our fireworks are
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manufactured, the Valence Partner House and first three. Right, Yes, that's
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right. We're on the level with you, mister Kane. But in five
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minutes we're going to ask you a more serious question. Are you on the
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level with us? Here we are? Will you get out in it now?
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You, mister Kane, sure Valance shouldn't let me help the lady out
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first. Don't move, mister, don't raise your voice, please, I
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won't, sister, I put a gun in my bad mister Kane. Will
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be honest with you. Up until the time you got into our car,
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I was positive you in your corner, Nick Carr, that joker. A
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certain item in the paper made us think so. But you showed us another
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story that seems to confuse the issue. Put it plainly, Only and Fred
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are really in Boomtown your nails Kane. But if they were captured last night
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in this city, your Nick Carter. Look, if you think you walk
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into the warehouse, mister Kane, Orka, go ahead and you'll wait here
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until we can check the conflicting newspaper stories. Yes, if your nails,
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Kane, you'll leave with forty revolvers in the Compson guns and all apology.
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If you're Nick Carter, you'll leave with the bullet in your heart. Okay,
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be careful open the door. I mean, mister Kane O, mister
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Carter. Okay, ch I s you've gotta go. I'm gonna use it
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too. Ready, keep coming out? You think this the track? Keep
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your hands up found Okay, Linda, do you want to play round?
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Nick? You're right, I'm alright ready to have a second album. That
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gun if you all coming, Brady, Rye, I'll got the gun.
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Okay, that's that. You get your ride in Peterson back at the store.
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Here it did, and let's wrap up this case and go home.
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Well, mister Vallance, I look CARTI if you think, I don't think,
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mister Valance, I know this is the beginning of a long and profitable
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relationship between you and a prison cell. Nick, I don't care it.
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What, Patsy, when you got into Balance's car, did you know where
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his plant was? No? I didn't know the slightest idea. And how
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come Brady was waiting for you inside the plant? You said, Valance shook
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off anybody who could possibly be tailing you, Patsy. A great many new
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devices were developed during the war. One of them is a very compact radio
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transmitter, small enough to go into a large pocket. Oh then that's why
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you wore your overcoat. That's why. And that's also why I turned up
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the collar so that Balance and Linda wouldn't see the throat microphone I was wearing
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underneath. Oh well, I'll be darned. All Brady had to do was
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listen to what you said to Valence. That's right. I said. It
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was simple, didn't I. That's how he happened to be waiting for us.
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And that's and that take Oh no, no, no, not quiet?
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What do you mean? And say, where are we going? Oh,
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Patsy, don't tell me you've forgotten all about war? Go and Scubby?
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Why? Nick, they're still in Broomtown, in jail, and that's
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where we're headed. Of course, after all, when they pulled off that
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crazy stunt of theirs and confused Balance, Linda gave you that extra five minutes,
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and he did in order to save my life. Yes, I guess
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the least you can do is to get them out of jail. Nick Carter
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you post war Old. That's Glenser. This welcome back. This show does
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seem to have something against character's main Pops. This is the second recent episode
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we've heard when a young person was let us strayed by, of course,
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someone named Bops. I also liked how the bad guys were keeping their options
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open and being clear to Nick Carter every step of the way that they were
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not sure who he was. And I have to say, only Nick Carter
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would be gutsy enough to try and pull this and have a transmitter on his
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person and hope they wouldn't check him. But again, gutsy is where it's
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all at for Nick Carter. All right, Well on to some listener comments
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I definitely hope so too, Randy. It's hard to believe that we are
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so much for your service. Now we have a few Nick Carter related comments
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over on Facebook. SEUs says, simply love Nick Carter, and then we'll
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receive an email from Linda says, Hi, Adam, is it me or
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has the Patsy and Nick relationship on Nick Carter started to resemble the George and
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Brooksy relationship and let George do it. In the earlier episodes, Nick and
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Patsy seemed to have a platonic boss slash assistant relationship. Lately, Patsy has
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become frustrated at Nick's disinterest in non investigative matters. That seemed very apparent in
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the case of the Wandering Macaroni episode, when poor Patsy just wanted Nick to
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take her to dinner on her birthday. Patsy's tonally Nick seems to be that
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of a long suffering girlfriend, but Nick seems almost oblivious to her feelings.
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Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, or maybe I missed some backstory.
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I'm curious as to your take. Thanks Linda, a long time appreciative listener
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from South Philly. Thanks Linda. I think it would be fair to say
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that the relationship between the characters has changed, though not through really organic development,
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but more through changes in writing and the fact that characters could be made
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more pliable. I wouldn't quite compare this to the George and Brooksy relationship.
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In that case, Brooksy was quite clear about what she wanted, and George
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wasn't disinterested in her period. He was just a very commitment shysh il Ways
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say, act if I ever write about Golden Age detectives in terms of taking
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up their story, that's one I would love to resolve one way or another.
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But that aside aside, it's not quite as clear. I think Nick
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is obviously disinterested in her romantically. In many of the Nick Carter books,
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at least a couple of a referenced Nick Carter having a wife who has never
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seen I think in this case he is just dedicated to the investigation of crime.
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It's very hard to have both a wife and a dossier of criminals that
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takes days to catalog, oh, when you're as active in it as Nick
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Carter, oh is. Nick Charles shows it can be done, though he
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goes at a far more leisurely pace. In some ways, I think what
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Pats she is expecting, and it's shown by her lack of interest in Scubby
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or even getting married in the first place. The way that they're portraying this
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is that she's really, at this point dedicated herself to this career of working
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with Nick Carter, and she's expecting things from him. I wouldn't necessarily say
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romance, at least the way they've written it, though it's somewhat ambiguous.
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I suppose you could go there, but personal recognition and things that other women
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would tend to expect from a romantic relationship. You could also look at their
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relationship in some ways very similar to the Old Doctor whose stories if you follow
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those, where there's no romantic relationship, but there is a strong friendship,
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mentorship bond, and that's what they are ultimately expecting from the boss. Whether
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this is realistic for someone to actually feel or respect, I do think that
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is what the authors are for training here. I think there's room for different
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interpretations. Certainly frustrated romance you could go with. You could also go with
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per expectation of Nick Bean as an older brother. So it's open for interpretation,
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probably more analogous. I would say to Ellery Queen and NICKI Porter,
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who will hear in a few months on the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio.
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